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The Jewish South The Jewish South: An American History Shari Rabin

A panoramic history of the Jewish American South, from European colonization to today
Reading Herzl in Beirut Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy Jonathan Marc Gribetz

How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO’s relationship to Zionism and Israel
American Maccabee American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews Andrew Porwancher

A major biography of a mesmerizing statesman whose complex bond with the Jewish people forever shaped their lives—and his legacy
Write like a Man Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals Ronnie Grinberg

How virility and Jewishness became hallmarks of postwar New York’s combative intellectual scene
The Closed Book The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg

A groundbreaking reinterpretation of early Judaism, during the millennium before the study of the Bible took center stage
Ethics of the Algorithm Ethics of the Algorithm: Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory Todd Presner

How computational methods can expand how we see, read, and listen to Holocaust testimony
How Rabbis Became Experts How Rabbis Became Experts: Social Circles and Donor Networks in Jewish Late Antiquity Krista Dalton

How rabbinic expertise was socially constructed, performed, and defended in Roman Palestine
A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean Yaron Z. Eliav

A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient Rome
Who Really Wrote the Bible Who Really Wrote the Bible: The Story of the Scribes William M. Schniedewind

A groundbreaking new account of the writing of the Hebrew Bible
The Woman Question in Jewish Studies The Woman Question in Jewish Studies Susannah Heschel and Sarah Imhoff

A critical look at the difficulties women face in the field of Jewish studies, drawing on quantitative data, personal stories, and the gendered history of the field
The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: The Far East, Palestine, and Spain, 1922–1923 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein’s travel diary to the Far East and Middle East
Old Truths and New Clichés Old Truths and New Clichés: Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer

From the Nobel Prize–winning writer, a new collection of literary and personal essays
How the West Became Antisemitic How the West Became Antisemitic: Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800–1500 Ivan G. Marcus

An examination of how the Jews—real and imagined—so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in new ways

Ancient Christianities Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years Paula Fredriksen

How, over the course of five centuries, one particular god and one particular Christianity came to dominate late Roman imperial politics and piety

Capital Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 Karl Marx

Marx for the twenty-first century
The first new English translation in fifty years—and the only one based on the last German edition revised by Marx himself
Featuring extensive original commentary, including a foreword by acclaimed political theorist Wendy Brown
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On the Couch On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud Edited by Andrew Blauner

A collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five leading writers

With original contributions by André Aciman • Sarah Boxer • Jennifer Finney Boylan • Susie Boyt • Gerald Early • Esther Freud •...
Strangers Within Strangers Within: The Rise and Fall of the New Christian Trading Elite Francisco Bethencourt

A comprehensive study of the New Christian elite of Jewish origin—prominent traders, merchants, bankers and men of letters—between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement Benjamin Nathans

A gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR—and still provides a model of opposition in Putin’s Russia
Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity Laura Katzman

A richly illustrated new exploration of the painting, photography, and illustration of the politically progressive American artist